29.1133, Calls: Computational Linguistics/Australia

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LINGUIST List: Vol-29-1133. Mon Mar 12 2018. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 29.1133, Calls: Computational Linguistics/Australia

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Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 23:13:26
From: Liling Tan [alvations at gmail.com]
Subject: Workshop for NLP Open Source Software

 
Full Title: Workshop for NLP Open Source Software 
Short Title: NLP OSS 

Date: 19-Jul-2018 - 20-Jul-2018
Location: Melbourne, Australia 
Contact Person: Liling Tan
Meeting Email: nlposs.workshop at gmail.com
Web Site: https://nlposs.github.io/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 25-Mar-2018 

Meeting Description:

Focusing more on the social and engineering aspect of NLP software and less on
scientific novelty or state-of-art models, the Workshop for NLP-OSS is an
academic forum to advance open source developments for NLP research, teaching
and application.

NLP-OSS also provides an academic workshop to announce new software/features,
promote the collaborative culture and best practices that go beyond the
conferences.

The First Workshop for NLP Open Source Software (NLP-OSS) will be co-located
with ACL 2018 at Melbourne, Australia on 20 July 2018. 


Call for Papers:

Workshop for NLP Open Source Software (NLP-OSS)
20 July 2018, Co-located with ACL 2018
https://nlposs.github.io/

Deadline for Long and Short Paper submission: 25 March 2018 (23:59, GMT-11)

We invite full papers (8 pages) or short papers (4 pages) on topics related to
NLP-OSS broadly categorized into (i) software development, (ii) scientific
contribution and (iii) NLP-OSS case studies.

 - Software Development
+ Designing and developing NLP-OSS
+ Licensing issues in NLP-OSS
+ Backwards compatibility and stale code in NLP-OSS
+ Growing an NLP-OSS community
+ Maintaining and motivating an NLP-OSS community
+ Best practices for NLP-OSS documentation and testing
+ Contribution to NLP-OSS without coding
+ Incentivizing OSS contributions in NLP
+ Commercialization and Intellectual Property of NLP-OSS
+ Defining and managing NLP-OSS project scope
+ Issues in API design for NLP
+ NLP-OSS software interoperability
+ Analysis of the NLP-OSS community

 - Scientific Contribution
+ Surveying OSS for specific NLP task(s)
+ Demonstration and tutorial of NLP-OSS
+ New NLP-OSS introductions
+ Small but useful NLP-OSS
+ NLP components in ML OSS
+ Citations and references for NLP-OSS
+ OSS vs experiment replicability
+ Gaps between existing NLP-OSS
+ Task-generic vs task-specific software

- Case studies
+ Case studies of how a specific bug is fixed or feature is added
+ Writing wrappers for other NLP-OSS
+ Writing open-source APIs for open data
+ Teaching NLP with OSS
+ NLP-OSS in the industry

Submission should be formatted according to the ACL2018 templates
(http://acl2018.org/call-for-papers/)

Softconf site: https://www.softconf.com/acl2018/NLPOSS 

Organizers:

Lucy Park, NAVER Corp.
Masato Hagiwara, Duolingo Inc.
Dmitrijs Milajevs, NIST and Queen Mary University of London
Liling Tan, Rakuten Institute of Technology




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